There’s some bad business going on in the blogosphere at the moment. A business has bought up similar domain names to popular blogs and has rerouted the traffic to their own site.
I’m outraged on behalf of the bloggers affected. They have spent years building loyal followings through doing what they do really well and doing it at a pace that makes my head hurt. Now by registering similar domains, a Gympie-based business is profiting from others’ hard work. Not only that, they’re being mean about it. You can read more about the whole dastardly act here.
But, that’s not why I’m here today folks. A very clever woman and trusted advisor told me to get back in the kitchen this week. So by golly that’s what I did! The vision I had for this cake had turkish leanings – figs, almond meal, orange blossom water. Then I added Greek yoghurt. Opa! Fig and yoghurt cake! If you make it, I suggest you have an audience when you remove it from the oven – the bubbling syrupy figs are the stuff smiles are made of.
fig and yoghurt cake
Ingredients:
200g butter
3 eggs
1 cup caster sugar
200g almond meal
¾ cup plain flour
1 tsp orange blossom water
zest of ½ lemon
150g full fat greek yoghurt
4 fresh figs
Method:
In a medium sized mixing bowl, beat the butter and the sugar together until creamed. Tip: when a recipe calls for butter and sugar to be beaten to a cream, beat them thoroughly until the mixture is smooth and when rubbed on the side of the bowl with the back of a spoon there is no gritty feeling.
Add the beaten eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly between eggs.
Add the lemon zest and orange blossom water, beat until combined.
In a separate bowl, combine the almond meal and plain flour. Add the meal and flour to the mixture and gently fold to combine.
Gently fold in the yoghurt and pour the mixture into a prepared 20cm spring form tin. Halve the figs and place them around the edge of the cake, pushing them into the cake mixture to protect them from burning.
Bake at 200ºC for 15 minutes, then reduce the oven to 170ºC and bake for a further 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Cool in the tin, then turn out, dust with icing sugar and serve with a cup of tea.
The very best thing to come out of this whole dreadful domain business is watching Katrina’s fans go to bat for her. They’ve contacted advertisers and alerted organisations. The loyalty that The Organised Housewife’s fans have shown is amazing. You can’t buy that and you sure has hell can’t redirect it.
Which leads me to a little question of my own. Will you help me out please?
Last year, I registered cookerandalooker.com.au in addition to cookerandalooker.com, just to be sure no one would snavel it. Yesterday’s events have me wondering if that’s enough. So will you please tell me, via the voting buttons below…..
If you were searching for my blog, what terms would you use?
Jolly good show, you’ve given up craft for cooking – PHEW! I reckon buy acookerandalooker too – and thecookerandalooker, if you can? I didn’t see that tweet, bad move and it can’t be erased now! Did you see the video apology? It’s in Aussie Blogger FB page! Oh and nice to know that someone listens to my advice! xx
I did see it Em, but I’m unconvinced. I’m certain she could get hold of Katrina if she wanted to! Thanks for the advice, will get both I think. Just wanted to check that there weren’t any other suggestions for my clever clogs readers. 🙂
Why aren’t your links working?
Definitely buy “acookerandalooker”, I always forget you don’t have an A at the front of your url.
Hi Womblywoo, the links should open in a new page. Could your browser be blocking them? Thanks for the advice. I’ll do that. x
I refreshed and the links work now, thanks. It was trying to pin your beautiful fig cake instead 🙂
Phew. Glad it’s working for you. I panic when the site is misbehaving!
Man that looks good! I’m going to try it but the where do you buy figs theses days??? And secondly buy BOTH domains for sure! It seems that honestly is not good enough these days, sadly x
Another beautiful creation – so much better than craft!! I am pleased you listened to that wise woman’s advice. 😉
It’s nasty business this domain name thingy – shameful. I think we automatically go for a ‘the’ or an ‘a’ when we search – probably best to get both if you can. I think I used to search for you using ‘a’ – but now you are in my favourites so I don’t even have to search! xx
Would you believe less messy that craft too Jodie?
Thanks for the comment, I grabbed both of them this morning 🙂
Just organising all the ingredients to make your cake when I discovered that whilst eggs are included in the instructions, none are listed in the ingredients. How many eggs should I use?
Eeeek! Sorry Jodie! I’ll look in my notebook when I get home and let you know ASAP. x
Hi Jodie, so sorry about that. Three eggs. Will fix the recipe now, then give myself a few uppercuts! xx
Thanks Amanda. I made it with two eggs as I had everything ready to go. Looks okay but I haven’t tasted it yet!
Awesome. Please let me know how it tastes?
Hi Amanda, just started making your cake and realized it says eggs but not sure how many!!
Hi Rachel, Jodie just pointed out the same problem! I’m in the car on my way home. I’ll check my notebook and let you know ASAP. xx
Fabulous, thanks Amanda! I just saw the comment above…sorry to double up! X
Three eggs Rachael – sorry for the muck up. I seriously need to sack my Editor! xx
Thankyou!!! X
Figs can do no wrong in my book! x